It is true practically if not altogether without exception that the changes studied by any science tend to equilibrate or neutralize the forces which bring them about, and finally to come to rest.

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.

...even professors of economics, to say nothing of the public, do not generally have scientific minds.

If all properly economic problems were solved once for all . . . the social struggle and strife would . . . [not necessarily] be reduced in amount or intensity . . . in the absence of some moral revolution which could by no means be assumed to follow in consequence of this change itself.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism